I thought by now the press had matured enough on Bitcoin to leave behind these kinds of one-sided fearmongering hatchet jobs...but clearly this planet has an endless supply of lazy stooges calling themselves journalists.

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Nothing can strip the shine off a cool trend as quickly as national security officials sharing how it is poised to become a cutting-edge tool in terrorists’ ongoing death-to-America project. As such, I want to thank David Cohen, the Treasury’s Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and John Carlin, acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security—distinguished and otherwise delightful members of a panel I moderated at the Aspen Institute’s National Security Forum this past weekend—for casting a sinister shadow over what I had previously assumed to be the harmless if quirky Bitcoin craze.

I thought by now the press had matured enough on Bitcoin to leave behind these kinds of one-sided fearmongering hatchet jobs...but clearly this planet has an endless supply of lazy stooges calling themselves journalists.

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Nothing can strip the shine off a cool trend as quickly as national security officials sharing how it is poised to become a cutting-edge tool in terrorists’ ongoing death-to-America project. As such, I want to thank [a couple of feds] for casting a sinister shadow over what I had previously assumed to be the harmless if quirky Bitcoin craze.

Bitcoin is the ultimate freedom test. It tells you who is giving lip service and who genuinely believes in it.

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